How treasury can meet the Working Capital Management challenge
TNT case study shows how to achieve WCM improvements globally
Order-to-Cash Cycle in WCM
Background
The Order-to-Cash Cycle (O2C) covers all the processes from taking the order through to banking the payment receipt, see figure below. The main working capital management objective in O2C is to…
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